David Ritz

"Questa e una storia blues. Il blues e una musica semplice, e io sono un uomo semplice... Il blues e un mistero, e i misteri non sono mai semplici come sembrano." Uomo solitario e amante della privacy, il cantante e chitarrista B.B. King si racconta: prestando maggiore attenzione ai ricordi del cuore che ai nudi fatti; seguendo i propri sentimenti ovunque lo conducano. Accompagna il lettore dalle piantagioni di cotone del Mississippi attraverso la Memphis degli anni quaranta fino al successo internazionale, narrando la sua storia peculiare, parlando di razzismo e lotta per i diritti civili ma anche di donne e sesso, e soprattutto di musica.

A OBRA MAIS IMPORTANTE DE TODAS SOBRE A TUMULTUADA VIDA DA RAINHA DO GOSPEL E DO SOUL."A biografia monumental que todos nós esperávamos. Sim, este é O Livro."— Joel Selvin, crítico musical do San Fra

Que Global Rhythm Press es una de las actuales editoriales de referencia en el tema musical no debería sorprender a nadie, como tampoco que si alguien ha sacar la mercado la autobiografía de Ray Charles sean ellos quienes lo hagan. Tras Johnny Cash y Bob Dylan, le toca el turno a un musico que, sobrepasando las barreras del jazz y el blues, consiguio un estilo propio que definiria el soul. En esta autobiografia a modo de conversacion con David Ritz, Ray Charles muestra no solo su faceta de estrella consagrada como mito a temprana edad, sino tambien sus problemas con las mujeres, las drogas o el imperante racismo de una epoca que le toco vivir, sin duda un lado muy oscuro. Brother Ray es, posiblemente, la biografia definitiva de uno de los grandes genios de la musica del siglo XX. Ya se ha convertido en un libro imprescindible para toda biblioteca musical.

En este recorrido por su vida, Lang Lang relata su gran pasión por la música desde muy temprana edad, la relación con sus padres, su determinación por ser concertista de piano y la profunda competitividad inculcada por la cultura china. A los nueve años, se traslada con su padre a Beijing para estudiar en el conservatorio. Despues de años de intensas horas de estudio, Lang Lang se presenta a numerosos concursos internacionales que gana. Gracias a ello se traslada a Estados Unidos donde estudia en el Instituto Curtis de Filadelfia. Este es el viaje por el crecimiento personal y el desarrollo de un niño prodigio, un musico con un talento excepcional.

Revealing funny whimsical and wise outlaw country legend Willie Nelson shares the untold stories behind the his favorite songs with all the lyrics and a dynamic assortment of neverbeforeseen photos and ephemera From his earliest work in the 1950s to today Willie looks back at the songs that have defined his career from his days of earning 50 each to his biggest hits from his less wellknown songs but incredibly meaningful to him to his concept albums Along the way he also shares the stories of his guitar Trigger his family and family as well as the artists he collaborated with including Patsy Cline Waylon Jennings Ray Charles Merle Haggard Ray Price Dolly Parton and many others Willie is disarmingly honestwhat do you have to lose when youre about to turn 90 meditating on the nature of songwriting and finding his voice and the themes hes explored his whole liferelationships infidelity love loss friendship and of course life on the road

Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss of his parents, and the pervasive racism of the era, Ray Charles was acclaimed worldwide as a genius by the age of thirty-two. By combining the influences of gospel, jazz, blues, and country music, he invented, almost single-handedly, what became known as soul. And throughout a career spanning more than a half century, Ray Charles remained in complete control of his life and his music, allowing nobody to tell him what he could and couldn''t do.As the "Chicago Sun-Times" put it, "Brother Ray" is "candid, explicit, sometimes embarrassing, often hilarious, always warm, touching and deeply human-just like his music."

O LIVRO DE MEMÓRIAS CHOCANTE E HONESTO DO MÚSICO QUE LIDEROU O STONE TEMPLE PILOTS E O VELVET REVOLVER, INCLUINDO IMAGENS DO SEU ARQUIVO PESSOAL.No início da década de 1990, Stone Temple Pilots - não

Drawing from interviews conducted before Marvin Gaye''s death, acclaimed music writer David Ritz has created a full-scale portrait of the brilliant but tormented artist. With a cast of characters that includes Diana Ross, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder, this intimate biography is a definitive and enduring look at the man who embodied the very essence of the word soul. Here is the story of perhaps the finest soul singer of the rock era--Etta James. One of the great women of American music, equally at home singing blues and jazz, Etta regales us with tales of her chaotic childhood, the stars she has known, and her troubled trip to stardom in this mesmerizing autobiography.

One of the great women of American music, equally at home singing blues and jazz, Etta regales us with tales of her chaotic childhood, the stars she has known, and her troubled trip to stardom in thi

Advierte, con la mayor de las solemnidades, la Reina del Soul—a propósito de la monumental biografía escrita por David Ritz—: «No malgaste su dinero en la lectura de esta biografía desautorizada». Si